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Historical Event on 2/25/1970

Mannathu Padmanabhan, great social worker and president of the Tranvancore Devasworn Board, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/21/1746French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais & Dupleix Madras.
7/10/1991Shivraj Patil of Congress elected Speaker of 10th Lok Sabha.
2/22/1858Gannau resident of Samosa Gali in Delhi, arrested for revolutionary activities, was hanged.
2/14/1994V. P. Singh elected JD Chief in place of S.R. Bommai who stepped down.
8/4/1935Government of India got the Royal Assent Act 1935.
6/20/1996Govt. of India declares at Geneva conference on 'Global Ban On Nuclear Testing' that it won't sign the CTBT.
11/16/1992Reservation, Supreme Court rejects economic criteria.
10/31/1875Vallabhbhai Zaverbhai Patel, 'Iron man of India', was born at Nadiad, Gujarat. He was also the first Deputy Prime Minister of India. His father had served in the army of the Rani of Jhansi against Britishers.
3/23/1942Second World War was turning against the British and they needed the help of the Indians. So Prime Minister Churhill sent a delegation under Sir Stafford Cripps (Cripps Mission) to hold talks with the Indian leaders on the future of the subcontient in UK, which could not take place because of the non-cooperation movement and they left after a fortnight. They submitted their report in April 1942 which was rejected by the Congress and Muslim League.
11/22/1997Yasser Arafat, President, Palestinian National Authority, laid the foundation stone for Indo-Arab cultural centre at Hyderabad.